LINDA: Forgive me, dear. I can’t cry. I don’t know what it is, but I can’t cry. I don’t understand it. Why did you ever do that? Help me, Willy, I can’t cry. It seems to me that you’re just on another trip. I keep expecting you. Willy, dear, I can’t cry. Why did you do it? I search and search and I search and I can’t understand it, Willy. I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And they’ll be nobody home. [A sob rises in her throat]. We’re free and clear. [Sobbing more fully, released] We’re free. [Biff comes slowly toward her.] We’re free… We’re free…
Though Willy's life is falling apart, and he is delusional, it's hard to feel a lot of sympathy for him because he is the one that got himself into all that trouble. His pride kept him from actually succeeding in anything. However the person I feel truly sorry for is Linda. She stayed by Willy's side even when he was depressed or going insane. She tries to comfort him and sticks up for him. She could possibly be the only person who truly believed in Willy all the way until the end. Even though she was a great wife, she still suffered the consequences of Willy's pride. She had to worry about the bills and payments that they couldn't pay because Willy lost his job. Also it couldn't have been easy to be seen as the wife of a crazy man. What frustrates me the most is that no one in the play appreciates what she does and what she puts up with. No one ever notices how strong she is to stay faithful to her insane husband or all the hard work she puts in to try to actually make their household run well. Willy should be so grateful to have such a supportive wife, but how does he repay her? By cheating on her with some random idiot woman. His scandal is in fact the whole reason Biff doesn't go to summer school which causes him to be a failure later in life. This ruins any chance of Biff being able to help his mother out as well. Linda has to deal with all the negative consequences of her husband's actions but never really complains that much. She's the one I feel really sorry for.
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